Sunscreen, excess oil, sand, sun exposure, salty sea, and air-con can play havoc with your skin on holiday. And let’s face it, there’s nothing worse than returning from your dreamy beach holiday with holiday blues and problem skin.
Thankfully, there are a plenty of hard-working body lotions, facial serums, hair masks and beauty devices to help you restore and care for your holiday-ravaged skin.
Here we share products and a few tips to maintain that post-holiday glow.
Chances are you treated yourself to a professional pedicure before your trip, but post-holiday our feet can look dehydrated and rough from days spent walking barefoot or wearing sandals. To save cash and keep your feet in good shape, try Scholl Velvet Smooth Electronic Foot File with Marine Minerals to buff away hard holiday skin. The at-home electric foot file has received over 4,000 glowing reviews on Amazon with a star rating of 4.4 out of 5.
One customer said: ‘What a difference it’s made. You don’t need to soak your feet first just use it on the dry skin, the device very quickly removes the dead skin and leaves a very smooth finish.’
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Glycolic acid can be a saviour for rough and dull skin. Enter GOOPGLOW 15% Glycolic Overnight Glow Peel. The pre-soaked facial pads may be expensive, but the formulation contains triple the concentration found in popular glycolic acid toners from the likes of The Ordinary and PIXI Beauty.
Inspired by professional chemical peels, the overnight acid peel intensely exfoliates while you sleep, helping to refine, retexturise and brighten skin. Avoid if you have very sensitive skin as you may find it too irritating.
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If you’ve got dark circles and puffy eyes from partying, try an eye cream brimming with brightening ingredients such as caffeine, AHAs and vitamin C.
Sunday Riley Autocorrect Brightening and Depuffing Eye Contour Cream (exclusive to Cult Beauty) is geared towards brightening and de-puffing and has an illuminating formulation of caffeine to reduce appearance of dark circles, ginseng to diminish puffiness and glycolic acid to gently exfoliate revealing smoother and brighter under-eyes.
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To help maintain your sun kissed complexion, apply Tan-Luxe Super Glow Hyaluronic Self-Tan Serum. Dubbed ‘the dogs b******* brilliant’ by skincare expert Caroline Hirons, the self-tan skincare hybrid delivers a tint of colour and a boost of moisture thanks to its inclusion of moisture-binding hyaluronic acid.
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Environmental aggressors such as sun, combined with blow drying and styling can dry out the natural oils in your hair leaving it dry and frazzled.
Choose a deep conditioning hair mask and use weekly until your hair feels stronger. IKOO INFUSIONS Thermal Treatment Wrap Protect and Repair is particularly good at helping your locks retain moisture, leaving hair sleek, shiny and smooth.
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Say goodbye to summer holiday spots with Korean beauty-inspired acne patches. Specifically designed to treat below-the-surface spots ‘before it gets real’, the Zitsticka Killa Spot Clarifying Patch Kit contains eight patches that absorb fluid from the pimple and dispense effective ingredients to treat the spot at the source.
The blemish battling formulation includes hyaluronic acid to hydrate, oligopeptide-76 to kill acne-causing bacteria, salicylic acid to exfoliate, and niacinamide to reduce inflammation and congestion.
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Don’t disregard cleansing devices. The FOREO LUNA™ Mini 2 provides a cleanse that a washcloth can’t compete with. Producing 8,000 T‑Sonic™ pulsations per minute, the device sloughs off pesky dead skin cells that plug up your pores, and washes away ‘99.5% of dirt, oil, sebum and dead skin.’
And thanks to its silicone design it’s not only waterproof, but far more sanitary than other cleansing devices available. Ease the brush into your routine to help maintain clear skin by using it once or twice a week and slowly build up your use.
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To prolong your post-holiday tan you must moisturise. Upgrade your light lotion to a body butter – we recommend Liz Earle Skin Replenishing Body Balm Lavender & Vetiver. This fast absorbing moisturiser from cult British brand Liz Earle will hydrate skin long after application leaving you silky smooth all day long.
Its formulation includes moisturising shea butter and it smells good too – think calming lavender and warm, woody vetiver.
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